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by wickedchicken 14y ago
HN has a subtle anti-college bias, so I want to put my point out there: my college experience was not defined by my classes or by my professors, but by the serendipitous connections that I made by being mixed in with a bunch of smart people
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> You can have multiple competitors in one space with comparatively limited infrastructure investment on their part. Spectrum and tower licensing is off the hook, and it's unlikely that more than a handful of companies will have the bus
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Housefires happen regardless of internet connection speed, so yes.
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A directory structure is too restrictive, much like Java and C++ inheritance. Cluster and search based file access is way more flexible and fluid, but we haven't had a good UI or overlay onto traditional filesystems yet. Think of Go's inter
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> PadMapper does not. It does.
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I see this from the opposite viewpoint, that PadMapper is operating as a search engine designed to help you find the right Craigslist posts for your apartment hunt. Claiming that PadMapper's success is from Craigslist failing to 'provide a
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Ableton? Native Instruments?
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by wickedchicken 14y ago
> wonderful bars, clubs They don't close. They. Do. Not. Close. As a nocturnal developer I could go out to a club, get back to my hostel at 2, write code for 2 hours and then go out again. Bliss.
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by wickedchicken 14y ago
Armchair analysis of his algorithm after watching his TED talk: a version of LSA that uses PageRank instead of a straight SVD to calculate rankings. LSA[1] has been around since the 80s and is used in many applications from GRE testing to A
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> It should target the type of teens on facebook The type of teen who legally can't vote? Sounds effective.
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Haha yeah! Fuck 'thinking,' I want a cat on the internet to tell me to yell at senators! Absolutely nothing about this feels like mob rule!
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The press release has a very us-vs-them mentality that I have seen about 0% other distributions do.
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I'm a systems developer, not a distro maintainer. When I boot off of that iso, I want a menu that asks me this: [ ] Desktop [ ] Server [ ] Embedded [ ] Custom This ultimately comes down to a user interface issue, but it's different than the
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Pagerank and radiosity(blog.kenperlin.com)
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The problem I ran into with Arch was that it forced you to make many decisions about your system up-front, before you had a system to begin with. I even found Gentoo easier to set up, and Gentoo forced me to pick which version of cron I
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> Arch linux isn't all that hard Yes. Yes it is.
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On a side note: if you use Google AppEngine, you already have SPDY support (as long as you visit your app via SSL, which usually requires the .appspot.com domain). Of course, if some services you use aren't served via SSL (I'm looking at
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"Unfortunately, one of the things that makes the site so secure is that we do not disclose the exact encryption practices." I don't know dude, sounds super secure to me.
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Drop out of college to make a combo Delicious/LastPass!
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http://blog.tanyakhovanova.com/ http://blog.kenperlin.com/ http://blog.vixra.org/ http://www.nature.com/ http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/groups/science/publicati... http://research.google.com/pubs/papers.html http://www.sco
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> Almost every video leaves me with a feeling of wonder. Culture at it's highest. Pop culture, yes. There is a whole world of knowledge behind TED's glossy sheen, and that world is found by looking up original sources. Don't read the Wi
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Feeling insecure about your place in life? Worried you're not happy enough, cool enough, or loved enough? You clearly aren't spending enough money. Don't bother creating things or building interpersonal relationships. Spend more time thinki
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> we can donate the resources to support roughly 3 average size families for a year to a "pop culture critic" At least she is attempting to advance society. If you want to feel depressed, 209 million USD was spent on http://en.wikipe
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> Something about the tone of this response irks me. Reminds me of someone doing it right: http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/faq.html#f...
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with gvoice, people can leave a voicemail that gets transcripted (vaguely) and texted to me. I glance at the text and decide if I want to call them back or not.
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> So are you saying that if CL had a more elegant UI you would be against the OP continuing agasinst CL's wishes? I believe it's more that if CL stopped stomping on other businesses for virtually no reason, without any discussion or eve
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Interesting. I use Awesome[1] daily, and it's pretty great, but I wish it had less flexible layouts and more grid-like ones. Actually, what I've been contemplating writing for a while is a window manager that notices what windows you have o
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> Odd line given that Berkeley is also on the West Coast and is ranked as high as Stanford. This is a NYT Technology article, don't expect anything to make sense.
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Sorry Pacific Northwest: the NYT Technology section found you. Expect some really weird and disconnected articles about how you have pull in "the IT sector" or "big data" or whatever analysts from obscure hedge funds think is the next thing
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Wacoms use a pretty natural hand-eye coordination that your brain is wired for. Styuli have been used by humans for a few millenia now with no real issues, until one prominent human decided he didn't "want a little scribble thing" and subse

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